Your Graphics Research
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| Recommended System Requirements | ||
|---|---|---|
| Game | Intel Q43 Express Chipset | GeForce 8300 GS |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 5180% | 7433% |
| Hitman 3 | 6769% | 9700% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 4729% | 6790% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 5180% | 7433% |
| FIFA 21 | 2564% | 3700% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 7330% | 10500% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 4573% | 6567% |
| Genshin Impact | 5180% | 7433% |
| The Medium | 6489% | 9300% |
| Far Cry 6 | 7540% | 10800% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Intel Q43 Express Chipset are significantly better than the Nvidia GeForce 8300 GS.
The Q43 Express Chipset was released over a year more recently than the GeForce 8300 GS, and so the Q43 Express Chipset is likely to have better driver support, meaning it will be more optimized for running the latest games when compared to the GeForce 8300 GS.
Both GPUs exhibit very poor performance, so rather than upgrading from one to the other you should consider looking at more powerful GPUs. Neither of these will be able to run the latest games in any playable way.
The GeForce 8300 GS has 512 MB video memory, but the Q43 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The GeForce 8300 GS has 8 Shader Processing Units but the Q43 Express Chipset does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.
The GeForce 8300 GS requires 40 Watts to run but there is no entry for the Q43 Express Chipset. We would recommend a PSU with at least 300 Watts for the GeForce 8300 GS, but we do not have a recommended PSU wattage for the Q43 Express Chipset.
| Core Speed | 533 MHz |  | vs | 450 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | - | vs | - | ||
| Architecture | Eaglelake | Tesla G86 | |||
| OC Potential | - | vs |
| Fair | |
| Driver Support | - | vs | Poor | ||
| Release Date | 01 Aug 2008 | | vs | 01 Jul 2007 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
| Approved | | | |||
| Comparison | |||||
| 1366x768 | - | |
vs | |
- |
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| 1600x900 | - | vs | |
1.4
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| 1920x1080 | - | vs | |
0.7
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| 2560x1440 | - | vs | |
0.5
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| 3840x2160 | - | vs | |
0.2
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| Memory | N/A | vs | | 512 MB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Speed | - | vs | | 800 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | - | vs | | 64 Bit | |
| Memory Type | DDR3 | | vs | DDR2 | |
| Memory Bandwidth | - | vs | | 12.8GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | - | vs | |
0 KB | |
| Delta Color Compression | no | vs | no | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
vs | |
0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | - | vs | | 8 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Shader Performance | - | vs | | 0% | |
| Technology | - | vs | | 80nm | |
| Texture Mapping Units | - | vs | | 8 | |
| Texture Rate | - | vs | | 3.6 GTexel/s | |
| Render Output Units | - | vs | | 4 | |
| Pixel Rate | - | vs | | 1.8 GPixel/s | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | - | vs | | 2560x1600 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | | 1 | |
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | - | vs | - | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | - | 40 Watts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended PSU | - | 300 Watts & 18 Amps | |||
| DirectX | 10 | | vs | | 10.0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shader Model | 4.0 | | vs | | 4.0 |
| Open GL | 2.1 | vs | | 3.3 | |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | no | no | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | no | vs | | yes | |
| Dedicated | no | vs | | yes | |
| Comparison | |||||
| Recommended Processor | - | - | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended RAM | - | 2 GB | |||
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | - | | 800x600 | ||
| Performance Value |  | ||||
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| Mini Review | Intel Q43 Express Chipset comes embedded on the Intel Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo CPUS and features an Integrated GPU called Intel GMA X4500. Various Intel Chipsets come with the Intel GMA X4500 but this one (and the Q45) seem to deliver the best performance. However, due to its characteristics (e.g. Shared Memory) the performance is still very limited but might be enough to play today's games at low or medium settings excluding, however, very demanding games like Metro 2033 or The Witcher II, that are probably unplayable, even at the lowest settings. Note 1: Intel GMA X4500 does support DirectX 10 but even the most forgiving games might be unplayable due to the demand level. | The GeForce 8 Series, a computer graphics processing unit, is the eighth generation of NVIDIA's GeForce line. The third major GPU architecture developed at NVIDIA, the GeForce 8 represents the company's first unified shader architecture. It competed primarily against ATI's Radeon HD 2000-series cards. There has been, at times, controversy over the naming of GeForce 8 series chips, including due to previous-generation chips being repackaged with minor changes (or possibly none at all) with the new names implying they are derived from the newly-introduced GPU chip design featured by the flagship products. | |||
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| Recommended CPU | - | - | |||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||